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Just a few examples: "In the cool of the evening" is a Genesis 3:8 reference, with Lafferty ironically

The passage itself refers to St. But the bat-wing reference does more.

roots: ktistes  originally meant a founder or creator, linked to pagan gods like Apollo, and later referred remembrance of the shaping hands of Job 10:8, Isaiah 64:8, and Psalm 119:73, which are hands Lafferty references In the Catholic Mass, this is referred to as the anamnesis .

Lop Nur Since Lafferty builds his story on this reference, it may be worth quoting at length. More precisely, anagoge  refers to the mystical ascent of the soul toward higher, divine truth. For reference, the tropes Lafferty plays with in this story are ones any educated humanist would recognize

Grover edited it into being a psychological artifact with no referent. was is that it still is" with the confidence of someone whose memory cloud has remained close to its referent

Fourth Mansions takes its title from a revered ecstatic, St. Teresa. Throughout the story, this group is referred to by the name John Salt gives them: the Meadow Lark Mountebanks The referent of faith is just not the same as the divine faith that is the gift of God.

his terms, he stipulated what he meant by this, even if in passing he would use the word “novel” when referring This is both like and unlike the slow student who refers to The Odyssey  as a novel.

the history of murder as a fine art, reaching back to Thomas De Quincey, while also making satirical references

The dialogue about the diamond’s origins and Hodl’s pocket contents now includes references to extraterrestrial

Doing so requires me to discuss diegetic protocols—where diegesis, simply put, refers to levels of narrative In effect, they are metadiegetic references to earlier spectral layers.

When the draft refers to “the Anastasis, the Resurrection Song,” it signals only Scarble’s personal change

Here we have atrocity signs displaced from WWII to deny their historical referent.